On A Positive Note: Denver’s Barry Curtiss-Lusher is ADL’s new national chair

The Anti-Defamation League’s new national chair is Denverite Barry Curtiss-Lusher, center, shown here with his family.

Denver civic leader Barry Curtiss-Lusher is the new national chair of the Anti-Defamation League. He was named to the post at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago.

A past chair of the ADL’s Mountain States chapter, Curtiss-Lusher is the founder and principal at McKenzie Curtiss-Lusher & Associates. He has a bachelor of arts degree from Yale and earned his juris doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School.

Laura Cowperthwaite, a broker associate at Your Castle Real Estate, is one proud mama: Her son, Brandon, a graduate of Denver School of the Arts, is heading off to Udine, Italy, to choreograph the opening event for the Associazione Danza e Balletto’s International Dance Gala, benefiting the Italian Red Cross.

His “East West Suite” will be danced by the Gruppo Stabile Udinese.

This is good

Shane Schmutz, founder and executive director of Veteran’s Passport to Hope, traveled to Colorado Springs last week to present a check for $245,633.61 to representatives from the Wounded Warrior Project. The money represents net proceeds from an Oct. 4 gala that Schmutz organized at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum … Creator Mundi, a sacred art shop at 2910 E. Third Ave. in Cherry Creek North, is donating 15 percent of its sales through Dec. 1 to Centus Counseling Centers … Junior League sustainter Linda Bowen Scott introduces her Bijoux Prive Collection at a trunk show on Nov. 27. It’s from 6-9 a.m. at Dan Sharp Luxury Outerwear, 218 Steele St. in Cherry Creek North.

I do! I do!

Congratulations to Valerie Nosler, the director of scheduling for Gov. John Hickenlooper, who exchanged wedding vows with Sam Beck, who works in the oil and gas industry, on Nov. 17 at Devil’s Thumb Ranch.

Valerie and Sam Beck. Photo: Kasia Iwaniczko MacLeod

Roxane White, who is both an ordained minister and the governor’s chief of staff, provided the spiritual elements of the Colorado-themed nuptials, while Hickenlooper conducted a civil service. He also delivered a gubernatorial proclamation that declared the “day be filled celebration.”

The unofficial state motto, ‘Tis a privilege to live in Colorado, was carried out over the course of the wedding weekend as guests enjoyed a s’mores roast, Colorado beers and wines, food and music. Even the signing of the marriage license was completed on a table decorated with the Colorado state flag.

The wedding ceremony was followed by a music-filled reception where the 130 guests dined on the the bride and groom’s favorite food: burritos.

A couple chose the British Virgin Islands for the honeymoon destination.